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ck4829

(35,039 posts)
Wed Jul 25, 2018, 01:53 PM Jul 2018

Can you do the Make America Great Again Challenge?! Pass this on

So when was America great before? What does that mean exactly? Sometimes you get vague replies of some before-time that was apparently so awesome it knocked your socks off, I remember a video of a Trump supporter chuckling and then saying "Well... before the gays", so I decided to help Trump supporters out.

Pick the year America was great and give up the horrible things associated with everything after that, and please add as you see fit.

2015 - Same sex marriage legalized in all states and territories

2013 - Black Lives Matter movement

2008 - First black president

2006 - Twitter founded (Give it up)

2004 - Facebook founded

2003 - Same sex sexual activity made legal in all states and territories

1991 - World Wide Web is open to the public

1973 - Roe v Wade

1968 - Last year it is legal to discriminate against someone trying to buy or rent because of the color of their skin

1954 - Last year it is legal to have separate schools for white and black students

1950 - BEST YEAR EVER (Excluding Roy Moore Voters)

1940 - About half of Americans have indoor plumbing (Flip a coin to see if you still have it, heads you do, tails you give it up)

1928 - Penicillin (Give antibiotics up)

1920 - Women get the right to vote

1916 - First billionaire in the US (So give up your already fantasy dreams of being a billionaire)

1914 - First flight service with passengers

1902 - First modern air conditioning unit

1885 - The first car

1868 - Being born in the US means you are a citizen

1865 - Still legal to own black people as slaves

1860 - The year right before the Civil War started, this is when America was great according to Roy Moore

1846 - Anesthesia in surgery

1776 - US declares independence from Britain

Before 1776 - First Muslims in America

Can Trump supporters dare to make America great again and live without the people... and things... after the year they say America is great?

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Can you do the Make America Great Again Challenge?! Pass this on (Original Post) ck4829 Jul 2018 OP
The hard core R's TheRealNorth Jul 2018 #1
1967 - Loving vs Virginia JustABozoOnThisBus Jul 2018 #2
When America was great before is a conservative ideological myth...the good ole days.. Thomas Hurt Jul 2018 #3

TheRealNorth

(9,471 posts)
1. The hard core R's
Wed Jul 25, 2018, 02:00 PM
Jul 2018

Like the 1880's when Cornelius Vanderbilt could brag about having the Pennsylvania legislature in his pocket, could hire Pinkertons to shoot striking workers, and declare that He could hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.

Edit- maybe 1898 - after Plessey vs Ferguson and we were starting to become a real player on the world stage after the Spanish-american war.

Definitely before Teddy R started reigning corporate power in.

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
3. When America was great before is a conservative ideological myth...the good ole days..
Wed Jul 25, 2018, 03:00 PM
Jul 2018

you know

when brown folks step to the gutter to let you pass
women didn't vote
rivers burned
food and medicines were adulterated for profit
child labor
company towns and scrip

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